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In 2013, Pavel Dmitrichenko, disgruntled principal dancer of the Bolshoi, exacted a now infamous revenge on the company's artistic director, Sergey Filin, for overlooking his girlfriend in casting the starring role in that most Russian of ballet ...Spectator Australia, 1 day ago

A new Russian internetproject is reliving the events leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 as if the historical figures of the time were posting on social media. The project, called 1917: Free History, aims to recreate the world of the ...

Fidel Castro, the last of the Bolsheviks, has entered the pages of history. The revolution had long ago stopped giving dividends. As scenes from the Salman Khan starrer Ek Tha Tiger shot in Cuba showed, the country badly needs a repaint, if not an ...

The story of Russia's flagship dance company, from the patronage of the tsars to surveillance by the KGB, mirrors the country's tempestuous recent history This massive survey of the 240-year history of Russia's most famous theatre begins on the ...

Communists in Belarus celebrated the 99th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution by unveiling a statue of the late Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Opposition activists from the "Young Front" movement tried to disrupt the event with chants of "shame, ...

(Credit: Salon/Benjamin Wheelock/Reuers/Carlo Allegri) Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News who is now President-elect Donald Trump's bullshitter-in-chief — not an official title, although it should be — has been called many things ...

While they might have been enemies in real life, in a twist of fate, Tsar Nicolas II and the Bolshevik leader of 1917 October revolution, Vladimir Lenin, have been sharing one canvas for almost a century. The secret double nature of the painting ...

When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they wanted to create perfect new government. Based on knowledge and merit, scientific government as they called it, would eradicate centuries of bad polices based on tradition, superstition and elitism. ...

Muktibodh was a Marxist writer, seeking the self's freedom. November marks the beginning of the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Hindi poet Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh. The fates of the two, however, have taken divergent trajectories. The ...

Laduree Laduree Cafe Bolshevik Retro chocolate treats The official store and cafe of the famous Moscow Bolshevik brand opened last year on the historical premises of the former plant. Located in one of the red-brick buildings next to the ...